Joann S. Lublin’s distinguished career is the result of a long journey of perseverance championing women’s advancement in the newsroom. Through it all she has achieved great journalistic feats, such as sharing the Journal’s 2003 Pulitzer for stories on corporate scandals like WorldCom, and seen great progress in America’s workforce.

In 2013, Jessica Donati arrived in Kabul at the tail end of the U.S.’s transfer of security to the Afghanistan government. Despite the dangers, she traveled with and without military escort to report on the country’s dramatic upsurge in violence.

Neal Lipschutz and the standards team hold the WSJ newsroom to the highest principles of journalism, even in the face of adversity. In 2015, he helped fight a court order barring the Journal from running a story about the controversial arrest of a stock analyst in India.

Jerry Seib’s illustrious career covering politics has taken him around the world and put him face-to-face with some of the biggest players on the global stage—but it has also put him in situations of real danger. In 1987, he was kidnapped and imprisoned for four days on suspicion of espionage by Iranian officials while covering the Iran–Iraq War.

Dana Mattioli’s unrivaled access to the business world helped break the story of Berkshire Hathaway’s 2015 agreement to acquire Precision Castparts— the largest such deal in Warren Buffett’s storied career. The timely, accurate reporting from Dana and her colleagues has delivered scoop after scoop, including 8 out of the 10 biggest M&A deals that year.

John Carreyrou’s nearly year-long investigation into blood-testing startup Theranos drew widespread public attention to the excesses of the Silicon Valley boom and voided tens of thousands of blood samples that could have endangered public health.